Qormusta Tengri is a god in Mongolian mythology and shamanism, described as the chief god of the 99tngri and leader of the 33 gods. It is the same of Turkish deities / gods Hürmüz and Kormos Han. According to Walther Heissig, the group of 33 gods led by Qormusata Tngri exists alongside the well-known group of 99 tngri. Qormusata Tngri derives his name from Ahura Mazda. He is analogous to the Indian Buddhist deity Śakra, ruler of the Buddhist heaven of the Thirty-three. Qormusata Tngri leads those 33, and in early Mongolian texts is also mentioned as leading the 99 tngri. He is connected to the origin of fire: "Buddha struck the light and 'Qormusata Tngri lit the fire'." A Mongolian fable of a fox describes a fox so clever that even Qormusata Tngri falls prey to him; in a Mongolian folktale, Boldag ugei boru ebugen, he is the sky god with the crow and the wolf as his "faithful agents". Qormusata Tngri's relatively recent entrance into the Mongolian pantheon is also indicated by the attempts on the part of Mergen Gegen Lubsangdambijalsan to replace earlier shamanist gods in the liturgy with five Lamaist gods including Qormusata Tngri. In one text, he is presented as the father of the 17th-century cult figureSagang Sechen, who is at the same time an incarnation of Vaiśravaṇa, one of the Four Heavenly Kings in Buddhism.
In Manichaeism
In Manichaeism, the name Ohrmazd Bay was used for the primal figure Nāšā Qaḏmāyā, the "original man" and emanation of the Father of Greatness through whom after he sacrificed himself to defend the world of light was consumed by the forces of darkness. Although Ormuzd is freed from the world of darkness his "sons", often called his garments or weapons, remain. His sons, later known as the World Soul after a series of events will for the most part escape from matter and return again to the world of light where they came from.
In Buddhism
In Sogdian Buddhism, Xurmuzt or Hürmüz was the name used in place of Ahura Mazda. Via contacts with Turkic peoples like the Uyghurs, this Sogdian name came to the Mongols, who still name this deity Qormusta Tengri; Qormusta is now a popular enough deity to appear in many contexts that are not explicitly Buddhist. And has become synonymous with the old Turkic god Kürmez Han or Kormos Han.
